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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2008 Apr 25;29(21):3152–3160. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2008.04.013

Figure 4.

Figure 4

The trajectories in Figure 3 exhibit a linear stress-strain relationship only up to about 5% strain. In this low-strain region, the shear modulus is 1.8 GPa. At larger strains, strain softening occurs.